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why were old wrestling fans so based?

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:12:15 No.13198867 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13198882 >>13198964 >>13198999 >>13199010 >>13199016 >>13199106 >>13199344 >>13200348

>bob backlund was wwf champion for 6 years in a row
>people didnt bitch about the booking and just enjoyed it

imagine how butthurt smarks would be if this had happened nowadays.

he didnt even have a gimmick at the time either just a vanilla midget

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:12:55 No.13198882 Report

Quoted By: >>13198992

>>13198867
>6 years in a row

yeah, defending the title once every 2 years

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:17:41 No.13198964 Report

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>>13198867
they were less obvious about the whole thing being fake back then y'know?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:19:23 No.13198992 Report

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>>13198882
what? it was more like every 2 days

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:19:38 No.13198999 Report

Quoted By: >>13199521

>>13198867
Holding a title for 6 years is fine when Pro Wrestling doesn’t have a weekly episode television show for 40 years running and kayfabe is still alive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:20:14 No.13199010 Report

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>>13198867
Bob wasn’t as over as Bruno but he was good to his fans. Per his book he would meet fans at the back door of the arena and sign autographs every show.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:20:24 No.13199016 Report

Quoted By: >>13199203

>>13198867
It got a bit boring when he defeated the 6th straight Royal Rumble winner in the main event of Wrestlemania and then managed to beat the MITB cash-in straight after so they had him drop the title

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:25:40 No.13199106 Report

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>>13198867
You are so naive. People were writing in to Apter mags and calling in to radio shows to complain about "Howdy Doody" and question why he has been the champ so long when he sucks so hard. People who knew that wrestling was a work and that the title scene is a popularity contest also knew it made no sense to keep the title to a goody two shoes like him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:29:03 No.13199163 Report

Quoted By: >>13199360

Because wrestling was still regarded as a sport and nobody knew the backstage workings of it. So for someone like Bob Backlund, he was perceived as someone who could actually go toe-to-toe with the best. Wrestling nowadays is merely performance art whereas back then they tried to maintain the appearance of a credible sport.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:31:00 No.13199203 Report

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:38:49 No.13199344 Report

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>>13198867
The champion actually had to defend his title more than a few times per year.

And the champion would actually win matches clean, instead of rely on an interference finish every damn match. Even heel champs would win in different ways, and wouldn't hold the world title near this long anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:39:33 No.13199360 Report

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>>13199163
Retard, the other anon laid it out. Plenty of fans were tired of Backlund.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:48:19 No.13199521 Report

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>>13198999
>when Pro Wrestling doesn’t have a weekly episode television show
bro wrestling was still televised in backlunds days

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 02:54:08 No.13199639 Report

Quoted By: >>13199850

>>13199344
Nah the world champion would just tour all the other territories facing their top guys and end in a draw - because the world champion couldn’t lose to a territory guy and the top territory guy couldn’t lose in his territory
The world champions in the 60s and 70s had more draws than wins or losses

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 03:04:47 No.13199850 Report

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>>13199639
A time limit draw looks a lot better than only ever winning due to interference.
And more defenses is always better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 03:24:28 No.13200099 Report

Quoted By: >>13200131

backlund sold out every arena he ever main evented

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Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 03:29:30 No.13200131 Report

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>>13200099
You mean he sold out 2000 seat high school gyms when people couldn’t stay at home because there was no TV or internet and the only other option was to go to the cinema to see a black and white war film

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 31 Jan 2024 03:53:45 No.13200348 Report

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>>13198867
Real fans respected a legit shooter like Bob.

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